Hi I'm new here also.Hope this takes off.
Have 1dgd aged 6months and her mum(my dd) has had so much support through mn.
2dgd is due in Jan to my ds and his dp.
Hope everybody knows what the abbreviations mean!

hi im new here.my children are all grown up now i have four. i have 9 grandchildren and another on its way, the youngest is 8 months and a very good little girl at moment. it will be great meeting other grans like me.

Hello all!
I think this is going to be great for all of us grans. My own children have left home and live some way away from us now - an overnight stop anyway. The grandchildren are therefore also miles away! And missing them, all of them, is of course just awful though at the same time you are really proud of how they are leading their lives.!
GranMutti - similar route to you. My daughter got hooked on this site, 2nd dgd born abroad so very important to her to be able to 'talk' to others in same situation. It helped her enormously and now she seems to have good friends on this site who support each other.I am so very proud of her and of her family including my sil and how they are together. This site will be fun and support for us all I think. loobz and hazygirl - so sad to read of your losses. Can't imagine....
I'm now off to start a link on Christmas now as everyone is talking about it!

jayden was my only grandson ,its hell we had inquest last month but i dont think i will ever feel the same about christmas you must feel the same,i know life has to go on but how ca it ever b the same ,thinking of u xx

Great to have you all here -must get my mum hooked on MN.

Have fun & we look forward to your Words of Wisdom!!

Hi Hazygran,
I lost one of my grandsons three days after Christmas last year aged 11 months, He had pneumonia. Have to say it's the worst thing I have ever experienced. I have another 2 grandsons, one 5 and one 10 months. They're just so amazing!

Right - will point wrinklygran over here (my mum)

Sorry, she will beat you cammelia, her eldest DGC is 18

but i must be the youngest gran well step gran!! dh's eldest son who is a smidge younger than me has a 15month old ds making me a step gran at 26!!!!!!!

<<preggers slopes off to find her specs and zimmer for authenticity >>

Bet I've got the oldest gdc, he's 15. Also have a 10 year old gdc, she's the same as my dd2

Hello, I am a grandma to DGS aged 6 and dgd aged 2. Also I am step-grandma to dsgd aged 6 months and dsgs aged just 3 weeks.

I am Mum to dd and ds, step-mum to 2dss's and 2dsd's. So dp and I between us have 6 children and 4 grandchildren, it going to be a bit busy at Christmas but great fun.

All this and I am only 42 21.

Hello Everyone! What a great idea this is. My DD is a regular MN contributor and I must say that I read her Pre-Natal Group and now her Post-Natal Group and really admire everyone's support of each other. It also has opened my eyes to the concerns that new mums have - my children are now 29 and 24 so it has been quite some time since I was a new Mum. My DGS was born this year and we are totally besotted with him. He is such a calm, contented and happy baby and I am so proud to see my DD being such a fantastic mummy.

I want to be a Grandma!!!

<<wails, kicks, screams and pouts>>

Eldest Ds 22, doesn't want kids

Next Ds 19 wants to be a sahd and he would make a great one.

It's not fair!!

(43, nearly 44 yo broody Grandma)

give me take a break any day saga mag is what we have at work for old grannys

Hi to Granny Hazygirl. Sorry to hear about your grandson, it must be difficult with the first anniversary coming up.

Not noticed Gransnet before.

<off to tell Mum about Gransnet to get her off Sagazone>

I'm not a gran either, but wnated to say hello. I have seen you around hazygirl

my dd is 24 in dec,she has the girls and our little angel ,my son is 22 he lives with is dp and youngest dd is 16,before anyone uses fingers i had my dd at 18 years of age ,i got married at18 and celebrate our silver wedding next year i will b 43 then

<daisy runs off to tell her mum about Gransnet>

Sorry about the loss of you DGS hazygirl, you must be feeling rather raw with his anniversary coming up

I'm a bit though, as I'm 38 but have just had my DC2 in June!!

welcome grans, grandmas and nannies!

hazygirl is younger than you, Emsmum - she's 42! (I'm much older and not a gran )

I didn't even know gransnet was coming - I wonder how many grans we have?

Hello... I'm not a gran but want to see how long it is before one younger than me appears on here [46]

yay
is about time we got this, my gran wouldn't let me convince her she'd love MN but maybe she will now!

Hi Hazygran

<shakes hand>

(I'm not a gran)

Welcome

she is going well were having problems feeding but shes on sma staydown now but very constipated , tried boiled water but stools rock hard ,cant win can u i have been coming on here since may the girls are great and got me through the worse time of my life

Hello Hazygirl I have seen you around

How is your youngest grandchild getting on?

(I'm not a gran) but just wanted to say welcome to mumsnet

hi hello im a grandma to four ihave three granddaughters age 6 week, 3 years and four years , i had a grandson but he died of cot death on the 1st dec 2006, age 10 week , i discovered mumnet after the girls on here did mile for maude to raise money for cot death research . i think it is great to be here , and hope to natter to other grans , i am forty two and work nights ,i have two daughters the youngestt is 16 and i have on e son.